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Code o Hammurabi

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Code o Hammurabi
A side view o the stele "fingertip" at the Louvre Museum
Creatitc. 1754 BC
Author(s)Hammurabi
PurposeLaw code

The Code o Hammurabi is a weel-preserved Babylonie code o law o auncient Mesopotamia, datit tae aboot 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is ane o the auldest deciphered writins o signeeficant lenth in the warld. The saxt Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enactit the code.